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Marker Monday: Historic Lodgepole Creek Valley

Location Interstate 80, Chappell, Deuel County, Nebraska. View this marker's location HERE. Marker Text Here is the valley of Lodgepole Creek through which passed ...

Marker Monday: Burton’s Bend

Grand Army of the Republic Hwy, Holbrook, Furnas County, Nebraska (more…)

Marker Monday: Old Dodge School, World War II P.O.W. Branch Camp

Location 323 W 1st St, Grand Island, Hall County, Nebraska View this marker's location 40.922698, -98.34188 Marker Text Old Dodge School served as one of two branch ...

Marker Monday: Massacre Canyon

Location U.S. 34, Trenton, Hitchcock County, Nebraska View this marker's location 40.206898, -100.9643 Marker Text The adjacent stone monument erected in 1930 was ...

Marker Monday: First Presbyterian Church of St. Paul

Location 901-999 8th St, St Paul, Howard County, Nebraska View this marker's location 41.214554, -98.45951 Marker Text The congregation was organized in 1879, eight ...

Timeline Tuesday: Bird Day

Bird Day was first observed on May 4, 1894, in Pennsylvania, and by 1910 was widely celebrated, often in conjunction with Arbor Day. Observances of the two holidays ...

Timeline Tuesday: Easter Cards

The history of modern greeting cards began in 1843 in England with the design of the first Christmas card. Easter cards were introduced somewhat later, but by 1887 ...

Timeline Tuesday:The Davey Ghost

In 1861 a Boston photographer named William H. Mumler discovered that additional images would appear if a glass photographic plate was exposed twice. Some believed that ...

Timeline Tuesday: Brainerd and Furnas at the Fair

H. A. Brainerd. From Portrait and Biographical Album of Lancaster County, Nebraska (1888). In 1926 journalist and Nebraska press historian Henry Allen Brainerd ...

Timeline Tuesday: April Fools in Omaha in 1886

One Omaha barber was the victim of an elaborate April Fool's prank in 1886. John Nelson's photograph depicts a barber shaving a customer with a straight razor during an ...

Flashback Friday: Building a Log Cabin on the Treeless Plains

Historian Everett Dick referred to the Great Plains as the “sod-house frontier,” and Nebraska photographer Solomon Butcher made many iconic images of soddies, but ...

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